For many years, my meals came from a box, a takeout bag or a restaurant kitchen. This is my attempt to try and change that. From this day forward, I resolve to embrace the kitchen. Let's get cooking!

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Friday, April 16, 2010

Carrot Cake Granola

Anything that involves carrot and cake is fine by me in my book. At some point, carrot cake became my go-to dessert of choice. It surpassed chocolate and went far beyond cheesecake. I started dreaming about a slice of carrot cake that I saw at a grocery store. I finally gave in. It was not worth it, so now I bake my own. But, Ron doesn't eat carrot cake. So, I'm normally left with a gigantic cake to eat by myself. That's not good, so I simply don't make it. I did recently find a fantastic recipe for cupcakes that is easy to cut in half. I may have to give it a shot.

I recently saw "carrot cake granola" on one of my frequently visited food blogs. WOAH, WHAT?? Carrot Cake granola? How can they get all of those amazing flavors into one granola? Well, they did. It's incredible. It's easy. It's healthy. And it smells/tastes/delivers like a carrot cake does.

On a side note, I've never actually toasted nuts or coconut. I've always been too afraid to burn it because they burn so easily. However, this recipe called me for me to add the nuts / coconut about 10 minutes before taking it out of the oven. Wow. The flavors that came from the toasted nuts and coconut was incredible. From now on, if a recipe calls for me to toast the nuts. I'm toasting the nuts!

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One day, I realized that I no longer had an appetite to eat the food that I had been eating daily for the past 10+ years of my life. I vowed to learn how to prepare appetizing meals, try new things and embrace the kitchen. I created this blog to document my journey away from a life of takeout.